With the help of a friend I wrote a program in C# that converts text files into images. I’m not a programmer so please forgive me if I haven’t got the lingo quite right. The code was compiled in Unity and the output was converted from a targa file to a PNG in Gimp (so Read More
“Since the world is evolving towards a frenzied state of affairs, we have to take a frenzied view of it.” Jean Baudrillard (151) For the better part of three years I’ve been interpreting digital images.1 Imagery made and circulated on the Web, in my study of the visual culture of network aesthetics, was subjected to Read More
Are we always interpreting? Even when we see something familiar or unfamiliar? To what extent does our subjective-ness come into play when we are interpreting something? How does technology affect the way we interpret things today? What happens to the object when we interpret it? Ocarina of Time sold over 7.6 million copies worldwide (ign.com). Read More
Locative Media Sites: .walk http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/dot-walk/images/1/ Wifi http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/wifi/ Urban Tapestries http://urbantapestries.net/ Nomadic MILK http://nomadicmilk.net/blog/?page_id=2 Thoughts on Locative Media and Net Art in terms of circulation: Locative media is defined as a response to “decorporealized, screen-based experiences of net art” and usually involves some element of mapping (Tuters and Varnelis 357). An example, .walk, had participants originating Read More
For this week’s probe, I’ve decided to look at the printed manuscript of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Six Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo,” written around 1720. One main contributing factor to its “messiness” is that nobody really knows when these pieces were composed, and there is little detailed information given on the manuscripts. The incomprehensibility Read More
Mess is inevitable: it is in our thought-process, our social interactions, our work, our mistakes and accomplishments, but most importantly it is also there in the creative process. When looking for supercuts on the internet, this website leads you to an archive of supercuts, which provides a definition for them: Supercut: noun \ˈsü-pər-kət\ — A fast-paced Read More
Hi Distant Readers, Last week Darren talked a bit about a probe I created a few years back on imaginary media forms. I thought I’d toss up an edited version as an example of where probes can go if they focus more on creation than research. Comments, criticisms, and assorted thoughts welcome! Photo credits go Read More
As Will Straw says in The Circulatory Turn, “Any theorization of urban communications must confront the relationship of stability to impermanence, of stasis to mobility.” [Straw 19] To colour such a confrontation, he borrows (from Karlheinz Stierle) the quote I’ve used for this probe’s title: “as cold comes to be fixed in ice,” referring to Read More
Well, this is my first post as a researcher at AmpLab, and I’m very excited for the opportunity to participate in the lab, with quite a talented group of people. Having not officially started my PHD just yet, I figured I’d just kind of sum up some past and recent work that has led me Read More
So I just finished reading Alexander R. Galloway‘s book Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture. When it comes to game studies, I often consider myself a little late to the game (pardon the pun), but I’m learning as fast as I can and my involvement in various projects, as well as my interest in discussing games in my Read More